Scope and content
Scrapbook pertaining to Diment's time at Cornell University from 1916-1920. Scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, 1916-1917 student handbook, items relating to the track team, rifle club, Cornell Athletic Association ticket booklet, baseball team. Several clippings related to the Cornell ambulance unit heading into World War One and other Reserve Officers' Training Corps items including certificate appointing Diment to Corporal signed by Frank Barton includes his uniform rank patches, also photographs, some showing the sham battle of May 5, 1917 with the four Cornell battalions and other training exercises. Used target shooting target. Programs including 1920 freshman banquet, Class of 1918 Junior Smoker, 1919 Junior Smoker, 1919 Musical Clubs Spring Day Concert, Spring Day 1920 Vestal Virgin's Date Book, 1920 Class Day and Commencement. Music programs including December 10, 1918 Fritz Kreisler Battle of Bailey Hall program, five hundred and eighty-ninth Cornell University organ recital, Department of Music programs including Philadelphia Orchestra, Frieda Hmpel, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ernestine Schumann-Heink. A number of photographs, many showing campus buildings including the Armory, Barton Hall, gorges, Karl Wood, freshman mud rush (some photos showing Diment), Lehigh Valley Railroad station, many photos of individuals, winter photos including toboggan slide, photos of individuals in various costume. Photographs and event programs of Scorpion fraternity also Antares publication. Pieces of clothing from mud rush. Also a child's bootie with a liberty loan pin. Theater programs including Cornell Dramatic Club presents Leonarda, Make-Believe Riders to the Sea and Welsh Honeymoon, and Sabotage a Game of Chess and Cathleen Ni Hoolihan, Cornell Masque presents Scott Walkers' Portmanteau Theatre, Cornell Women's Dramatic Club presents The Yellow Jacket. Lyceum Theatre programs for Pollyana, Flora Bella, Come out of the Kitchen, and Broadway and Buttermilk, Jack O'Lantern, Hitchy-Koo 1918, Twin Beds, Tea for Three, Also a programs for Wieting for the Passing Show and B. F. Keith's New Theatre in Syracuse New York, and The Playhouse Rutland Vermont. Travel ephemera and photographs from Lake Dunmore Hotel Vermont, Ausable Chasm, Lake Champlain New York. Wedding invitation to Olga Alvine Meyer and Merrick Stowell Carpenter.
Dates
- 1916-1920
Creator
- Kinney, Horace Diment (Person)
Language of Material
English.
Biographical / Historical
Horace Kinney Diment graduated from theCornell Universtiy College of Arts and Sciences with the Class of 1920.
Extent
.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)
- Cornell Dramatic Club
- Cornell University -- : Students.
- Cornell University. Class of 1920
- Cornell University. ROTC
- Lyceum Theater (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Military education.
- Photographs
- Scorpion fraternity (Cornell University)
- Scrapbooks
- Spring Day (Cornell University)
- United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
- World War, 1914-1918
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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